Earlier this month, Microsoft issued an advisory about what appeared to be a remote code execution vulnerability in Internet Explorer 8, that was being actively exploited in the wild by malicious hackers.

There were also reports that the vulnerability was being exploited by online criminals in other attacks, increasing the necessity for Microsoft to patch its software.

Well, Microsoft still hasn’t released a patch - but if has issued what it describes as “an easy, one-click Fix it tool” that concerned users and companies can run on computers which use Internet Explorer 8.

About the author, Graham Cluley

Graham Cluley is a veteran of the anti-virus industry having worked for a number of security companies since the early 1990s when he wrote the first ever version of Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows. Now an independent security analyst, he regularly makes media appearances and is an international public speaker on the topic of computer security, hackers, and online privacy.

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